Antiskid-tire protector



lAPR 3, 1923,

B. M. TALLEY ANTISK'ID TIRE PROTECTOR Patented Apr. 3, i923.

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BERRY MARTIN TALLEY, OF MORROW', ARKANSAS.

ANTISKID-TIRE PROTECTOR.

Application filed November 23, 1921.

To all ici/tom t may concern.'

Be it known that BERRY M. TALLnY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Morrow, in the county of `Wash ington and State of Arkansas, has invented new and useful Improvements in Antiskid- Tire Protectors` of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and eiiicient protector for the tires of automobiles and similar motor driven vehicles employing pneumatic and cushion tires and also designed to serve as an anti-skid tread for the same and particularly to provide a device of this type wherein the tread elements may be constructed from worn and otherwise discarded remnants of tires or casings such as are used in connection with vehicles of this type; and with this object in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in i the accompanying drawings7 wherein Figure l is a cross sectional view of a protector embodying the invention applied in the operative position to a tire.

Figure 2 is a side view of a portion of the same.

Figure 3 is a plan view of the protector showing the portion thereof adjacent to the joints between the runners or connections.

rlhe device consists essentially of a series of tread elements l0 adapted to be arranged and held in spanning relation with the tread portion of a vehicle tire ll, said tread elements preferablyT consisting of cross sections of a pneumatic tire casing or shoe of the clincher type and thus providing for the clincher beads l2 on the extremities of the strips forming said tread elements.

The tread elements are secured together in a series with the elements arranged in spaced relation as shown in Figures 2 and 3, by means of a flexible runner or connection 13 of wire or cable-of the two-ply or double strand type7 so that the numbers of the connection or runner represented by t-he said strands may lie in contact with opposite or in other words inner and outerside surfaces of the terminals of the tread elements in engagement with the beads, to forni an interlocking connection between the tread elements and the runners or connections. The

strands or plies of the ners, in the intervals Serial No. 517,256.

connections or runbetween the adjacent edges of the tread elements are extended through tubular determine the intervals between spacers la which serve to said tread elements while maintaining the engaged poi'- tions of the strands or .plies of the connections or runners in such relation as to clamp the terminals of the tread elements between the intermediate pliesthat termediate portions of said strands or is to say the portions thereof inbetween the successive spacers.

Fastening means l5 are provided for connecting the terminals nections to secure the of the runners or conprotector on the wheel tire and in the construction illustrated these fastening means consist of clips 16 of ilA shaped formation having one leg longer than the other and the extremities of the runners connected to the shorter leg7 thus disposing the longer legs of the complemental clips adjacent each other. spanned by bolts 17 rEhese longer legs are and which, when tightened7 serve to properly tension the runners or connections.

It will be obvious that by using cross sectional portions or seginents,of worn and otherwise useless tire casings or shoes as the tread elements of the protector, the device may be constructed at cost inasmuch as the only a relatively small further elements thereof consist of the means for flexibly connecting and' holding said tread elements in series so that they may be properly positioned in spanning relation with the tread surface of the tire,

Ha vi ng described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is A tire transverse tread elements in protector consisting of flexible spanning relation with the tire, flexible runners to whichV said tread elements are secured and uniformly spaced from each other, and fasteners for sisting of the terminals of said runners concoinplemental U-shaped members of which one leg is shorter than the other,

the shorter legs being secured to the tei'minals of the runners and the longer legs disposed adjacent each other,

and bolts spanning the longer legs to exert tension on the I'UIlIleI'S.

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BERRY MARTIN TALLEY. 

